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upstream test error: KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / step_into_slowpath

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/02/01 01:23
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+d14f890d47bef7c612aa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 15h53m, last: 15h53m

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / step_into_slowpath

write to 0xffff888107a65d80 of 4 bytes by task 3980 on cpu 0:
 d_make_discardable+0x4f/0xa0 fs/dcache.c:936
 simple_unlink+0x68/0x80 fs/libfs.c:807
 shmem_unlink+0x12d/0x140 mm/shmem.c:4014
 vfs_unlink+0x28b/0x440 fs/namei.c:5378
 do_unlinkat+0x1e2/0x4b0 fs/namei.c:5448
 __do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:5483 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:5481 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlink+0x2e/0x40 fs/namei.c:5481
 x64_sys_call+0x2f48/0x3000 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:88
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xc0/0x2a0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffff888107a65d80 of 4 bytes by task 3001 on cpu 1:
 __d_entry_type include/linux/dcache.h:416 [inline]
 d_is_symlink include/linux/dcache.h:446 [inline]
 step_into_slowpath+0x139/0x4c0 fs/namei.c:2055
 step_into fs/namei.c:2099 [inline]
 walk_component fs/namei.c:2235 [inline]
 lookup_last fs/namei.c:2730 [inline]
 path_lookupat+0x330/0x500 fs/namei.c:2754
 filename_lookup+0x190/0x390 fs/namei.c:2783
 do_readlinkat+0x7d/0x340 fs/stat.c:576
 __do_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:613 [inline]
 __se_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:610 [inline]
 __x64_sys_readlink+0x47/0x60 fs/stat.c:610
 x64_sys_call+0x2af1/0x3000 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:90
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xc0/0x2a0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x08300080 -> 0x00004080

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3001 Comm: udevd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/01 01:22 upstream 162b42445b58 6b8752f2 .config console log report [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce upstream test error: KCSAN: data-race in d_make_discardable / step_into_slowpath
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.